Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: libertylover

‘ Most of the “reciprocal” tariffs are about 1/2 what they charge us, but the HBM (Has Been Media) tries to push this as Trump being incredibly mean because the premise of all of their stories is “Let’s hate Trump”.’

That’s not how it was calculated.

‘ The tariffs were calculated using a formula that takes how much a given country sells to the U.S. (exports), subtracts how much that country buys from the U.S. (imports) to calculate the trade deficit, and then divides the trade deficit by that country’s exports to the U.S.’


26 posted on 04/04/2025 9:10:10 AM PDT by Fuzz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies ]


To: Fuzz
‘ The tariffs were calculated using a formula that takes how much a given country sells to the U.S. (exports), subtracts how much that country buys from the U.S. (imports) to calculate the trade deficit, and then divides the trade deficit by that country’s exports to the U.S.’v

The nerd in me transferred all of those numbers into Excel, threw out the ones that charge us only 10%, then averaged the rest. It comes out that we're going to charge 50.49% of what they charge us.

28 posted on 04/04/2025 2:25:39 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson